Rep. Castron: Trump Revoking Brennan’s Clearance Is an ‘Abuse of Power and Violates His 1st Amendment Rights

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CASTRO: "I definitely think it is an abuse of power and I think there is an argument that it violates First Amendment rights of John Brennan. The reason is because it is Government taking action through the President against political speech and political speech is among the most protected speech under First Amendment law. So I suspect that all of us will find out whether that’s the case or not. John Brennan could pursue an action. And if he does, a judge and curt will make a ruling on that. Putting that aside for a second, it is certainly an abuse of power. Let’s be clear about this, John Brennan’s problem is he spoke truth to power to a thin skinned President, and that’s why he lost his security clearance, and that’s why Jim Comey and others may lose their security clearances. This is a very dangerous precedent to set by President of the United States. You can imagine the situation ten years from now where a Democratic president uses this to punish folks that are criticizing him from the right. So I think that members of Congress from the Republican Party, of course Democrats, but from the Republican Party and others have to be worried about the action that the president is taking here."